[flyman]

Hi,

I've installed 4 HD's in my Mac as follows:

Bay 1 = Snow Leopard
Bay 2 = Windows 7
Bay 3 = Mac Clone
Bay 4 = Windows XP

The problem is for some reason, since I installed both the Windows OS's my Mac it now takes forever to startup.

From the point of pressing the start button to getting to the log on screen it took 1 minute 37 seconds.
I used Disk Utility to verify the disk and permissions but it still took exactly the same time!

Heres hoping someone can help?

Thanks in advance

[Janichsan]

Just an idea, but I would check whether in the System Preferences under "Startup Volume" your Snow Leopard disk/partition is really selected. It could be that your Mac is checking all your disks/partitions for a feasible boot volume, which takes a moment.

[flyman]

Janichsan, on November 18th 2009, 01:18 PM, said:

Just an idea, but I would check whether in the System Preferences under "Startup Volume" your Snow Leopard disk/partition is really selected. It could be that your Mac is checking all your disks/partitions for a feasible boot volume, which takes a moment.

Hi Janichsan,

After checking the preferences, removing the drives, usb devices and zapping the pram/nvram; I've now narrowed it down to a D-Link DBT-120 Bluetooth dongle sitting in my Belkin usb hub!
I then tried deleting the Bluetooth preferences and its made no difference.

So the upshot of this is, very embarrassingly, I've just discovered that my Mac already has a Bluetooth adapter installed and without that D-Link dongle it works fine.

What does seem strange is that its only since I installed Windows 7 has this caused a problem.

Many thanks for the advice.